Acquisition Lead

Updated:
Mar 31, 2025 - The Acquisition Lead is responsible for achieving acquisition targets by leading a high-performing team, enhancing strategies based on customer feedback, and driving collaboration across multiple functional teams. This role builds strong relationships with ecosystem partners and implements proactive recruitment strategies to meet business growth demands. The lead also develops talent pipelines and employer branding efforts to attract diverse, qualified candidates for current and future needs.

Job Summary:

• Working with stakeholders across the organization to define roles and targets
• Build and maintain candidate pipeline for hardware and software engineering, product, design, operations and logistics, data science, marketing, customer support
• Schedule and conduct interviews
• Identify and engage with top talent using innovative approaches (e.g. new platforms, A/B testing candidate approaches)
• Manage candidate hiring end to end from sourcing to onboarding
• Manage an Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
• Maintains and expands recruiting expertise by staying abreast of industry trends, best practices, legal developments, and benchmark comparisons.
• Leverages existing technology to conduct proactive sourcing, campaigns, and events and participate in university relations.
• Participates in meetings and on committees and represents the department and hospital in community outreach efforts.
• Participates in multi-disciplinary quality and service improvement teams.

Skills on Resume:

• Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)
• Interview Coordination (Hard Skills)
• Talent Sourcing Strategies (Hard Skills)
• Hiring Process Management (Hard Skills)
• Recruiting Trends Knowledge (Hard Skills)
• Community Outreach (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Builds strong relationships with hiring managers and is seen as the subject matter expert in all areas of talent acquisition as assigned.
• Develops and implements effective recruiting and sourcing strategies, processes, and procedures to support staffing needs.
• Ensures strategies are aligned with corporate objectives and goals to positively impact business results.
• Provides direction and oversight of strategic advertising for hard-to-fill positions.
• Partners with hiring leaders and business partners to create short- and long-term recruitment forecasts and workforce hiring plans.
• Creates and delivers reports to hiring and TA leaders and HR Business Partners on key metrics focused on recruitment effectiveness, efficiency, and achievement of targeted goals.
• Coaches and counsels TAP/Sr. TAP including completion of the annual review process.
• Provides timely, consistent, and candid feedback regarding team members’ performance and progress to departmental goals and objectives.
• Fosters relationships with HR Business Partners, TAPs/Sr. TAPs and hiring leaders to develop talent acquisition plans for hard-to-fill positions and proactively plan for anticipated vacancies.
• Provides leadership and direction to the TA team on excellence in hiring leader communication, candidate relationship development, offer negotiation, and the effective execution of recruitment and onboarding practices.

Skills on Resume:

• Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
• Recruiting Strategy Development (Hard Skills)
• Alignment with Corporate Goals (Hard Skills)
• Strategic Advertising Oversight (Hard Skills)
• Recruitment Forecasting (Hard Skills)
• Recruitment Metrics Reporting (Hard Skills)
• Coaching and Performance Feedback (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Help convey the impact staff have in service of HBS by establishing a Careers in External Relations web presence
• Ensure job postings effectively relay the daily contributions of staff
• Establish a proactive and robust recruitment and outreach strategy for key segments of ER’s workforce Lead hiring and associated activities.
• Partner with hiring managers across External Relations from job ad creation, candidate review, and advice on the hiring process
• Establish necessary tracking and reporting to…